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Jul
28
Just Grateful
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I’m still working on putting my book together; it’s definitely not easy. I’ve decided (with some advice from Justin Eyre) to publish it as an ebook through Amazon. I’m not sure how long it will take me to get it all together, but I’m hoping within a month. It’s funny because all the things I [...]
Jul
25
. . . In my continued research on breath/breathing I’ve come across a quote by a monk named Thich Nhat Hanh (He’s a pretty famous Buddhist). The quote so examplifies my thoughts about training in jiu-jitsu that I think I will have it put above the mats at my academy, “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” [...]
Jul
24
I’ve been researching online about breathing, especially on YouTube (the ultimate research site), and these swamis, these mystic yogis keep popping up. So, being the curious and scholarly person I am, I watched a bunch of these videos and I decided I could never be a swami, only because it would be too hard to [...]
Jul
23
Courage and Winged Testicles
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. . . I just had the really disturbing image of flying testicles–winged ones. I just read something I posted a few years ago about not only having the courage to pursue a dream, but to be able to sustain that dream, to have the courage to jump but also the brains to sustain it; [...]
Jul
22
. . . I just finished reading a couple of books that I really liked, both had to do with zen and archery (Kyudo). I’m not an archer in any sense of the word. I did get my archery merit badge in the Boyscouts, but that’s about the extent of my experience. All I really [...]
Jul
21
Jiu-jitsu has a god, a demi-god really, a mythological, demi-god from Libya. His mother was Gaia and his father, Poseidon. Antaeus was a half-giant from the land of Libya; he killed dudes and kept their skulls to bulid a temple for his father Poseidon. Okay, he was kind of a bad guy, and he was [...]
Jul
19
Thinking about breathing can really mess your ass up
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Since I’ve been thinking about breathing a lot lately, I remembered a time when I almost hyperventilated, I guess I had a panic attack or something; I hate to admit it, but I’m pretty sure that’s what it was. It was about eight years ago and I had agreed to fight in a MMA show. [...]
Jul
17
. . . I have invited a yoga teacher to come give a lecture at West Side about breathing. She’s actually my business neighbor and she (along with her husband) owns a yoga/coffee house next door to the academy. I’ve always known there to be a correlation between breath and movement, and even breath and [...]
Jul
14
I’ve always liked the poem “The Road not Taken,” by Robert Frost. You remember the poem, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…and I–took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Here we go again with roads, and paths and directions, but what it all boils down to is choice, [...]
Jul
13
. . . I have recently written about being on a path and I guess I assumed that everyone on a path would be headed in the right direction, but I guess it’s not only the path but the direction you are headed. maybe we take a variety of paths, maybe the path is not [...]
